Majlis al-Shura

The Majlis al-Shura, known as the Consultative Assembly in English, was the advisory council that ruled Egypt Eyalet, the Khedivate of Egypt, the Sultanate of Egypt, and the Kingdom of Egypt. The Majlis was conservative, supporting the power of the absolute monarchy of Egypt and the preservation of the aristocracy. The Majlis maintained power for much of its existence, with the Urabist Faction briefly holding power during the early 1880s. The Majlis al-Shura was abolished when the kingdom was overthrown by the Egyptian Revolution of 1952; from 1980 to 2013, the Majlis al-Shura was recreated as the upper house of the Egyptian Parliament.